The 2015 Billboard Music Awards were set to be a BIG night -- especially for Taylor Swift.

There was pretty much no chance that she was going to go home empty-handed at Sunday night's (May 17) show -- considering she went into the evening leading all nominees with 14 nods for her smash 1989 album. True to form, she went home with eight trophies, including Top Female Artist, Top Billboard 200 Album and Top Artist. Oh, and she also opened it all by premiering her badass "Bad Blood" video.

She had stiff competition, though, from multiple nominees who sere no slackers in the nominations department: including Sam Smith (13), who snagged three, including Top Male Artist and Top New Artist; Iggy Azalea (12), who also took three, including Top Rap Song and Top Rap Song; and Meghan Trainor (nine), who went home with Top Hot 100 Song and Top Digital Song.

Here's who else cleaned up at tonight's show, co-hosted by Ludacris and Chrissy Teigen.

Billboard Music Awards finalists are based on album and digital song sales, radio airplay, streaming, touring and social-media interactions based on a reporting period from March 10, 2014, through March 8, 2015.